Word: snowplowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years back, when we still had real winters in New York, the snow was so deep one night that I left my car at the train station and walked home. No cabs were running. Not a snowplow in sight. Even the mailman had bagged it. The street was perfectly silent--but for a familiar boxy, brown truck rumbling my way sporting the initials U P S. There, I recall thinking, is a stock to own--if only UPS shares traded publicly...
Every time Quad residents wait at the curb near Johnston Gate or the Science Center, hearts leap. Is that monolith coming around the corner our shuttle? No, it's a Greyhound bus. Is that rattle-and-hum our shuttle? No, it's a snowplow. Is that knight in shining armor on wheels our shuttle...
...snow turned politicians into field marshals. New Jersey's Governor Christine Todd Whitman posed in a snowplow. Hoboken, New Jersey's, mayor, Anthony Russo, closed city streets to all but city residents, conjuring the image of a medieval city with the drawbridges up. Pennsylvania's Lieut. Governor Mark Schweiker confirmed the worst nightmare of the print press by declaring that broadcast journalists qualified as "essential workers" and could therefore drive the streets early in the storm, while newspaper employees could not. Schweiker also announced that Pennsylvania's 2,500-vehicle cleanup was "the largest civilian snow-removal fleet...
...whiteout. Little dervish snow tornadoes twirl across the blank. The car is out there somewhere, represented by a subtle bump in the snowfield. The old Jeep truck, a larger beast, is up to its door handles, like a sinking remnant: dinosaur yielding to ice age. The town's behemoth snowplow passes on the road, dome light twirling, and casts aside a frozen doe that now lies, neck broken, upon the roadside snowbank, soon to vanish under the snowfall still to come...
...bunch only recently dubbed "Uncle Sam's lead-footed snowplow brigade," by Sports Illustrated magazine. Yet even U.S. ski officials seemed stunned by the team's sudden resurrection. "It's the most unbelievable thing I've seen in sports," said American coach Paul Major of Roffe-Steinrotter's win. The 26-year-old veteran's career was in a slump, and she had failed to place higher than eighth in any World Cup race since capturing a silver medal in the 1992 Albertville Olympics. As for Moe, he had not won a major downhill contest in five years...